About this data

Where the Deal Board's numbers come from, how often they refresh, and how to check any one of them yourself.

What the board tracks

Every active distress case we can find on the public record across the three South Florida counties, from the first court filing through the auction to the final result:

• New filings – a lis pendens, the first public sign a foreclosure has begun.
• Auctions – scheduled county online sales in the next 14 days.
• Held, awaiting results – the sale ran; the county has not posted the outcome yet.
• Results – what a third party or the lender actually paid.
• New REO – confirmed lender take-backs.

Sources

• County Clerks / Official Records – Miami-Dade, Broward (Acclaim) and Palm Beach (Landmark Web) for lis pendens and recorded instruments.
• RealForeclose – the counties' online auction calendars and sale results.
• County Property Appraisers – assessed value and property use, for the spread.
• Sunbiz / SEC EDGAR – to resolve the real party behind a title-holding entity.

The receipts rule

Every figure on a deal carries its case or instrument number and links back to the county document it came from. If a number cannot be tied to a record, it does not appear. The spread is the county-assessed value measured against the judgment or claim; we show the inputs, not just the result.

Update cadence

The board refreshes twice daily, morning and evening. The auction sections are the freshest; filings depend on when each county posts to its record (Palm Beach and Miami-Dade lag about a day). The timestamp at the top of the board is the last refresh.

Addresses

Each situs address carries its street, city, state and ZIP from the county property appraiser. Palm Beach County's appraiser record publishes the street and municipality but not the ZIP on the parcel page, so Palm Beach addresses show street and city without a ZIP until the county exposes it – we never guess one.

What we leave out

Individual homeowner and HOA foreclosures are filtered out – the board covers commercial and entity distress, the developer signal. Allegations in a filing are the filing party's, not findings of fact. This is information, not investment advice.